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He devoted his scholarship to achieve a better understanding of the
Sumerian language and its textual corpus, publishing extensively on Sumerian literary and lexical texts, as well as many contributions that illuminate diverse aspects of the Sumerian writing system, language, literature, and culture,
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Language, literature, and history: Philological and historical studies presented to Erica Reiner,
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from phonology to agriculture. Civil also published several contributions on the texts from
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Riches hidden in secret places: Ancient Near
Eastern Studies in memory of Thorkild Jacobsen
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Rochberg-Halton. AOS 67. pp. 37–55. New Haven: American Oriental Society.
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1987. “Feeding Dumuzi’s sheep: The lexicon as a source of literary inspiration.” In
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1984. “Bilingualism in logographically written languages: Sumerian in Ebla.” In
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1985. “Sur les “livres d’écolier” à l’époque paléo-babylonienne.” pp. 67–78 in
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Professor of Sumerology at the
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Eastern studies in honor of William W. Hallo
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27:(Miquel Civil i Desveus; May 7, 1926 – January 13, 2019) was an American
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267:, ed. Luigi Cagni. pp. 75–97. Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale.
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2002. “The forerunners of marû and hamtu in Old
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1961. “The home of the fish: A sumerian literary composition.”
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1997. “The
Instructions of king Ur-Ninurta: A new fragment.”
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The Early
Dynastic Practical Vocabulary A (Archaic HAR-ra A)
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better than anyone since it was last spoken 4000 years ago.
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1964. “A hymn to the beer goddess and a drinking song.” In
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The Farmer's Instructions: A Sumerian Agricultural Manual
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1993. “On Mesopotamian jails and their lady warden.” In
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Miscellanea babylonica: Mélanges offerts à Maurice Birot
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1967. “Šū-Sîn’s historical inscriptions: Collection B.”
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1987. “The early history of HAR-ra: The Ebla link.” In
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1973. “The Sumerian writing system: Some problems.”
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270:1984. “Notes to the ‘Instructions of Šuruppak.’”
256:1984. “On some terms for “bat” in Mesopotamia.”
249:1983. “Enlil and Ninlil: The marriage of Sud.”
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340:1999–2000. “Reading Gilgameš.”
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